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The third conference held by the Alliance for the defence of Palestinian Detainees in Brussels attended by widespread representations from Palestine, Europe, and several other countries has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution to back the nomination of Marwan Barghouti for the Noble peace prize.

Marwan Barghouti is a Palestinian legislative council member and is currently serving several life sentences in the Israeli occupation prisons.

120 non-government organizations from all over Iraq called on the United Nations and United States government to live up to their responsibilities vis-à-vis the safety and security of Camp Liberty residents.

These NGOs issued a statement reading:

The regime ruling Iran considers the export of terrorism and fundamentalism in Iraq and ot ...

Iran’s meddling in the region, especially in Iraq and Syria, have escalated into an unprecedented scale. In Syria Iran’s forces are continuing to massacre the Syrian people and Tehran’s meddling in Iraq continues in the most bloodiest of natures. Iran-backed militias are resorting to all types of crimes against internally displaced persons and those forced out of their homes, and these proxy groups have even admitted to abiding by direct orders issued ...

Seventy seven Members of the 17th Jordanian Parliament, establishing a majority of this council, signed a joint statement expressing their fret on Iran’s meddling in the region and calling for guaranteed safety and security for Camp Liberty residents in Baghdad until their ultimate departure from Iraq.

Some 2000 members of the Peoples’ Mojahedin, Iran’s main dissidents, are now residing at Camp Liberty, a former US base, just ...

Europe hosts this week Iran’s Foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif. He has plans to visit Poland, Finland, and Sweden. The trip has fueled criticisms from many concerned parties curious about Iran’s huge record of terrorism and the violations of human rights.
Iran is the sole state in the world ruled by fundamentalist extremists.
The events of a few months ago in P ...

The Egyptian Revolutionary Council denounces the racist insults directed at the African people, and calls on the African Union to adhere to its Charter.

The Egyptian Revolutionary Council has been following, with deep sadness and regret, the shocking insults made by a coup official who unfortunately carries the title of “Egyptian diplomat” towards our African brethren. The degrading language he has used bears no relation to diplomatic or pol ...

U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee passes resolution on Camp Liberty

The United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved and referred to the House Floor a bipartisan resolution calling for "safety and security" of the members of the main Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Ira ...

U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee passes resolution on Camp Liberty

The United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved and referred to the House Floor a bipartisan resolution calling for "safety and security" of the members of the main Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Ira ...

This month, in celebration of Mother’s Day, we concluded our worldwide call to name the boats that will sail to Gaza in mid September. Amal-Hope and Zaytouna-Oliva will sail to Gaza in mid September. Both women’s names represent many languages.

Amal symbolizes the hope that we will bring to the shores of Gaza and Zaytouna symbolizes the mighty olive, the tree of life in Palestinian agriculture. In addition, Oliva was the name of the ...

The recent riot in Hama Central Prison and talks of a possible massacre of the prisoners by Bashar Assad has revived memoirs of the tragic 1982 massacre led by then Syrian president Hafez Assad and his brother Raf’at. More than 30 years ago the city of Hama witnessed a horrendous massacre, and today the son of Syria’s then dictator has killed ten times more Syrians than his father ...

Dr. Hanna Issa, Secretary-General of the Islamic-Christian Commission in support of Jerusalem and holy sites, said, "The monitoring of political change requires analysis elimination, and taking the historical context in general, political change is a shift in the structures and behaviors and successive political goals which affect the distribution and the exercise of power.&q ...

The Stars Cinema reopens in Nabatieh, after so many years.
Kassem Istanbouli is leading a young team to the opening of the Star Cinema with a powerful program of activities that will bring to the city theatre performances and cinema.

Kassem Istanbouli, founder of Istanbouli Theatre, is the Al Hamra Cinema Manager in Tyre, a cinema that has reopened after 30 years of closure. Under his leadership, several international festivals were held i ...

Dr. Hanna Issa, a professor of international law, said, "That all international resolutions, without exception, stress the need to maintain the occupied city of Jerusalem and not to be subject to force, noting that “the occupation by these decisions hit the wall and did not adhere to them as a challenge.”

He added, "The recent decisions of the Israeli government to build more settlement units and the deportation of the residents of Jerus ...

Expel Iran from Islamic Bloc OIC Message to Iran: Get Your Terrorists out of our Countries

By Heshmat Alavi

The recent summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which was held last week in Turkey, was the largest bloc representing Islamic countries .The organization consisting of 57 countries is also the second group of world’s countries after the Uni ...

The Egyptian Revolutionary Council strongly condemns the raid on the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate only two days before World Press Freedom Day and the arrests that were made from within the quarters; a crime that Egyptian journalists witness for the first time. This move was described by the head of the Journalists Syndicate as “unprecedented” and a “violation of law”.

Dr. Hanna Issa, Secretary-General of the Islamic-Christian Commission in support of Jerusalem and holy sites, said, "All Israeli settlements are illegal under international humanitarian law regardless of their schematic state.”

He noted, "The settlements are a major factor behind the access restrictions, and insecurity and displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank, including ...

Dr. Hanna Issa, Secretary-General of the Islamic-Christian Commission in support of Jerusalem and holy sites, "Israel attempts intensively to change the milestones of Jerusalem city in order to Judaize it and end the Palestinian Arab presence in it, as they seek to disarm the historical Arab and Islamic identity of the city and impose a ne ...

WITH Syria and Libya aflame, with Iran challenging the Gulf Arabs for mastery of the region and with America questioning its role as ultimate guarantor of stability, this ought to have been a time, one might have thought, for the Arab League to assert itself. Instead, the body appears to drift ever deeper into irrelevance. Its idea of renewal, it seems, is simply to replace its octogenarian secretary-general with a septuagenarian, an uninspiring transfer that is due to ...

As Labour Day approaches, we (the signatories) salute the workers of Egypt who are considered the powerhouse of the 25th of January Revolution who ignited its spark.

The military regime continues to systematically abuse the rights of workers and exploit their efforts and achievements. From the very start of the military coup of the 3rd of July, 2013, the military dictatorship passed legislation that deprives workers from their social and financial right ...

In a program broadcasted on April 22 and 23 on the prisons and torture centers of the paramilitary forces affiliated with the Iranian regime in Iraq and on the massacre of innocent people, especially the Sunnis, Al-Jazeera TV said: “Some of the abductees were transferred to secret prisons in Ashraf Base. This base formerly belonged to the People’s Mojahedin Organization [PMOI/MEK] but was occupied by the Badr militias. Right now, close to 150 people have bee ...

By Keyvan Salami
Riyadh was joined by Amman in issuing a new statement decrying Iranian meddling across the Middle East. As Saudi King Salman wrapped up his five-day tour of Egypt, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman arrived to a warm welcoming by King Abdullah of Jordan. This is yet another sign of the Saudis embarking on a vast campaign of rallying all Arab nations under one flag against their archrival: the reg ...

Tawakkol Karman
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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What is happening in Yemen, and what is the correct way to sustain peace there? Once we properly acknowledge what is happening, we can take the next step in finding the solution. When we don’t fail in acknowledging the problem, we won’t fail in suggesting solutions.

Dr. Hanna Issa, Secretary-General of the Islamic-Christian Commission in support of Jerusalem and holy sites, said, “State concept combines the power and sovereignty that give the state policy legitimacy and solemnity, which makes individuals obey its authority and respect the prestige of the law."

He pointed out, "Presumably every political entity should judge people with justice ...

Jordan – prompted by the UAE – along with Egypt, the Islamic State, as well as some EU states are all moving against the Muslim Brotherhood
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Last week the Islamic State (IS) devoted 25 pages of its propaganda magazine Dabiq to a “feature” denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood as apostate. “Over the last few decades, a devastating cancer has emerged, mutate ...

By: Heshmat Alavi
It was a bad news for Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, when Russia pulled out its forces from Syria while the forces opposing the rule of President Bashar Assad were making headway. Khamenei tried to recoup the missing savage strikes by Russian war planes by introducing more ground force into Syria. He ordered more Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and regular soldiers dispatched to Syria to foll ...

Dr. Hanna Issa, Secretary-General of the Islamic-Christian commission in support of Jerusalem and holy sites said, "Tolerance, is a position based on the recognition of the universal rights of the human person, and fundamental freedoms of the other, applying it means the need to recognize each and everyone's right to freely choose their beliefs, also to accept that the other has the same righ ...

Dr. Hanna Issa, Secretary-General of the Islamic-Christian commission in support of Jerusalem and holy sites, said, "The political change is characterized by a sense of inclusiveness and expansion, it is the overall changes that the political structures in a society is exposed to in what so the power and authority within the same state or several states society is re-distributed."

The second edition of the International Music Festival of Tyre, Lebanon, to be held this year from 9 to 11 April in the city of South Lebanon is dedicated to the great artist Fayrouz.

Istanbouli Theatre organized this musical event that will take the city of Tyre in early April in collaboration with the Association for the arts, the City Council and the Ministry of Culture of Lebanon. The aim of this international festival is to enable the encounter between a ...

Dr. Hanna Issa, a professor and an expert on international law, said, "The existence of the settlements makes a future Palestinian state less able to grow and develop economically and politically, not only that, but also deprives the Palestinians the right to self-determination, these settlements constitute a serious obstacle in the way of a comprehensive solution, a just lasting peace in the Middle East."
He continued, "The establishment of settl ...

Is Brussels going to be the last?
Mohamed S. Kamel
March 25th, 2016
Our hearts go out to the people of Belgium, and to the entire humanity for the horrific crime committed recently in Brussels. A crime that wasn't the first, and unfortunately will not be the last, as long as we can’t exterminate the terrorism and eradicate the root cause of it.

March 15, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - I confess to having purchased four children near Ramlet el Baida beach recently from a stressed-out Syrian woman. I am not sure if she was as she appeared to be or was from one of human trafficking gangs which operate widely these days in Lebanon as they market Syrian children or vulnerable adult women. The vendor woman claimed to have been the four children’s neighbor in Aleppo and that they (two five ...